SPECIAL NOTE: I originally wrote this post in 2017 for my personal blog site, which I discontinued a few years ago. Because Brielle Galleries was in large part responsible for kickstarting the Cybis studio's success, I have resurrected the post and added some new images and information. Most of us have a few special places [...]
No matter how much someone may love a product, there's usually at least a small “But I really wish that....” caveat lurking somewhere. Perhaps that's even more true when the product is a form of art. I developed my own wish-list regarding Cybis and thought it would be fun to ask some collectors of my [...]
The Museum of American Porcelain Art has just launched their first off-site exhibit of Cybis porcelain, and the venue couldn't be more appropriate: a local public library. The Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights/University Heights library system, which was launched more than a century ago, moved into its current purpose-built location in 1968. Richard [...]
Although this site is laser-focused on Cybis Porcelain, I would like to add some recently-discovered information about the first Boleslaw Cybis large-scale commercial venture which was the Cordey China Company. As I describe in my History of Cordey China post, this was a partnership between Boleslaw Cybis and two Pennsylvania businessmen, Harry Greenberg and Harry [...]
The recent discovery of part of a circa-1950s Cybis wholesale price list contained a series of single Nativity figures that are entirely different from the 1950s Nativity Murals shown in the studio's published catalogs. This did not come as a complete surprise to me, though, because in 2021 I came across an unfamiliar figurine marked [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Museum of American Porcelain Art (MAPA) has mounted an exhibit recognizing seven women who made major contributions to the history of art porcelain. Five of them represent the Cybis studio; each has an Artist Profile on this site (bolded links). Museum Curator Carey Barone designed the lovely wall-spanning [...]
The existence of some circa-1940s pieces that are dual-marked M.B. Cybis and also have the vertical monogram MC strongly suggests that the MC actually meant “Marja Cybis herself made this item.” This post collects all of the MC-marked pieces so far discovered; they are typically a sub-set of those that are marked M.B. Cybis, which [...]
We now shift focus from the smallest (smallest limited editions) to the largest: This post identifies the top five sculptors who created the modern-day Cybis porcelains, in terms of how many sculptures they created for the studio (whether or not they were released by Cybis as retail items.) Retail editions that were sold as a [...]
American porcelain art studios tended to offer larger limited-edition quantities than did their counterparts in England: An edition of 100 would be considered typical or average there, whereas here that same quantity was seen as being much more exclusive. Let’s take a look at that upper echelon of Cybis sculptures and see if we can [...]
The Cybis studio was known for their limited-edition human figures, especially the series that was marketed as the ‘Portraits in Porcelain' collection. However, the identity of the artists who actually created (sculpted) them was never publicly revealed. What we regard as the modern Cybis studio began after Marylin Chorlton took over the artistic reins after [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 